If they like the look and feel of Github so much, why don't they just implement something like Github on their own servers? They could buy a site license of the software from Github, Gitlab, or wherever if they don't want to roll their own solution. They can continue to use Github as they do now. That's all fine and dandy. That won't hurt the other users of Github. Why do they feel the need to own Github unless the objective is to infect Github itself with Microsoftish idiocy?
In the event of Github selling out to Microsoft, I want to be sure I can download all issue discussion, wikis, and so on from my projects and then upload that information to a new service, say Gitlab. Could I get some people to suggest programs/scripts for accomplishing this?
"The lab diamonds from De Beers will sell for about $800 a carat," reports Bloomberg. "A 1-carat man-made diamond sells for about $4,000...". So, a lab diamond is $800 a carat and a man-made diamond is $4000 a carat? What's the difference between a lab diamond and a man-made diamond?
I thought Bloomberg was rich enough to hire copy editors.
Their phone itself isn't particularly interesting. There's nothing about it that distinguishes it from every other phone out there. Maybe if they did something like put back features that most/all of the other vendors have deleted, this wouldn't have happened. LineageOS is there for people who want a pure Android without crapware. What we need is hardware without crapware AND WITH the good stuff that is usually missing these days (IR blaster, removable battery, SD card slot, non-curves screen, a bezel without the stupid notch, 3.5mm audio jack). Also, how about designing phones with the expectation of putting them into a case of some sort?
I sympathize. Laptops these days are made with very little distinction between brands. The Thinkpads (particularly T series) were perfectly tuned for people who actually spend an appreciable about on time on them. After the sale to Lenovo, it quickly became yet another Brand X.
Were you trying to be clever by referencing stuff that haven't been on laptops for a couple decades? Is it somehow uncouth to want to know what the physical user interface is like? Are cellular data radios obsolete?
A company doesn't need to be a complete monopoly for the Sherman Antitrust Act to be invoked. It just needs to be powerful enough to force the rest of the market to go along with its demands. That's what Standard Oil did prior to 1911 and is what Facebook is doing now.
In the early days of telephones, you had to turn a crank and tell the operator which line you wanted to connect to. An undertaker by the name of Almon Brown Strowger was an undertaker who noticed that one of the operators was married to one of his competitors. That operator was connecting people who wanted to talk to Strowger to her husband. Strowger was thus motivated to create his Step-by-Step automatic switching equipment and the rotary dial. What Strowger's competitor's wife did is no different than what ISPs today want to do, but net neutrality stands in the way.
No optical bay, no mobile phone radio, no smart card reader, no 7-row keyboard, no middle mouse button, volume controls crammed into a shift on the function keys. The article doesn't show the keyboard or monitor, which are extremely important when selecting a laptop. I found shots of it elsewhere at https://system76.com/guides/or.... There's just not a lot there that isn't different from any other laptop.
"Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs" is much less puerile than how a bunch of other news outlets are running this story. They're going with "Uranus Smells Like Farts".
The reason the NRA is targeted is not because they are responsible for the massive slaughters we've seen lately, but unlike the other groups you mention they actively oppose ANY EFFORT TO FIX THE PROBLEM. As a matter of fact, they think the answer to the problem is more guns. This is basically like pharmaceutical companies telling you that the answer to opioid abuse is to try to get more opioids on the market to bring the prices down. If you're STILL having some cognitive dissonance here, you should try watching this.
Here's a slight but very significant correction: The NRA actively opposes ineffective and counter-productive efforts to fix the problem. The talking heads either can't or won't offer any rational justification for gun control, so they resort to name-calling.
Last week I was looking at jeans in a store. It seems that this pre-worn stuff is all that's offered now anymore. Does anyone know if/where one can get actual new and un-wrecked jeans?
This is nothing new. Russia has had a habit of starting politically-motivated dissent and riots in other countries since the 1920s. They're not interested in who wins. They just want to cause chaos and to control whoever is left standing.
Also missing a removable battery, SD slot, and IR-blaster. What the hell is the deal with removing useful hardware features from high end phones but leaving some of them in lower end phones?
Never settle? This phone? It looks like if you're picking this phone, you're settling for a non-removable battery and no SD card slot. I'm getting rather sick of companies taking away features and touting the results as better.
This concept should be extended to enforce the right of people to install whatever they want on hardware they own. And no sneaking around that with semantics. So... want to sell something with a locked bootloader? Fine. Disclose to buyers how to unlock it. Want to sell something with Secure Boot? Fine. Disclose to buyers how they can install their own keys and disable Secure Boot.
Now maybe they can get to the business of stopping the abuses of the drivers? (playing games with payments, hiding exactly how much they take out of the fare, telling passengers one price and telling the drivers something else, driving fares down for no good reason, etc, etc)
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It's funny that when you google for "udev2", the first hit talks about disabling it.
Microsoft needs to be expelled from the Linux Foundation.
This is what Github employees, now Microsoft employees have to look forward to.
If they like the look and feel of Github so much, why don't they just implement something like Github on their own servers? They could buy a site license of the software from Github, Gitlab, or wherever if they don't want to roll their own solution. They can continue to use Github as they do now. That's all fine and dandy. That won't hurt the other users of Github. Why do they feel the need to own Github unless the objective is to infect Github itself with Microsoftish idiocy?
In the event of Github selling out to Microsoft, I want to be sure I can download all issue discussion, wikis, and so on from my projects and then upload that information to a new service, say Gitlab. Could I get some people to suggest programs/scripts for accomplishing this?
"The lab diamonds from De Beers will sell for about $800 a carat," reports Bloomberg. "A 1-carat man-made diamond sells for about
$4,000...". So, a lab diamond is $800 a carat and a man-made diamond is $4000 a carat? What's the difference between a lab diamond and a man-made diamond?
I thought Bloomberg was rich enough to hire copy editors.
Their phone itself isn't particularly interesting. There's nothing about it that distinguishes it from every other phone out there. Maybe if they did something like put back features that most/all of the other vendors have deleted, this wouldn't have happened. LineageOS is there for people who want a pure Android without crapware. What we need is hardware without crapware AND WITH the good stuff that is usually missing these days (IR blaster, removable battery, SD card slot, non-curves screen, a bezel without the stupid notch, 3.5mm audio jack). Also, how about designing phones with the expectation of putting them into a case of some sort?
I sympathize. Laptops these days are made with very little distinction between brands. The Thinkpads (particularly T series) were perfectly tuned for people who actually spend an appreciable about on time on them. After the sale to Lenovo, it quickly became yet another Brand X.
Were you trying to be clever by referencing stuff that haven't been on laptops for a couple decades? Is it somehow uncouth to want to know what the physical user interface is like? Are cellular data radios obsolete?
A company doesn't need to be a complete monopoly for the Sherman Antitrust Act to be invoked. It just needs to be powerful enough to force the rest of the market to go along with its demands. That's what Standard Oil did prior to 1911 and is what Facebook is doing now.
In the early days of telephones, you had to turn a crank and tell the operator which line you wanted to connect to. An undertaker by the name of Almon Brown Strowger was an undertaker who noticed that one of the operators was married to one of his competitors. That operator was connecting people who wanted to talk to Strowger to her husband. Strowger was thus motivated to create his Step-by-Step automatic switching equipment and the rotary dial. What Strowger's competitor's wife did is no different than what ISPs today want to do, but net neutrality stands in the way.
No optical bay, no mobile phone radio, no smart card reader, no 7-row keyboard, no middle mouse button, volume controls crammed into a shift on the function keys. The article doesn't show the keyboard or monitor, which are extremely important when selecting a laptop. I found shots of it elsewhere at https://system76.com/guides/or.... There's just not a lot there that isn't different from any other laptop.
"Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs" is much less puerile than how a bunch of other news outlets are running this story. They're going with "Uranus Smells Like Farts".
Except that you can't haggle over the price of an Uber ride and that both the driver and the rider get shafted.
The reason the NRA is targeted is not because they are responsible for the massive slaughters we've seen lately, but unlike the other groups you mention they actively oppose ANY EFFORT TO FIX THE PROBLEM. As a matter of fact, they think the answer to the problem is more guns. This is basically like pharmaceutical companies telling you that the answer to opioid abuse is to try to get more opioids on the market to bring the prices down. If you're STILL having some cognitive dissonance here, you should try watching this.
Here's a slight but very significant correction: The NRA actively opposes ineffective and counter-productive efforts to fix the problem. The talking heads either can't or won't offer any rational justification for gun control, so they resort to name-calling.
Last week I was looking at jeans in a store. It seems that this pre-worn stuff is all that's offered now anymore. Does anyone know if/where one can get actual new and un-wrecked jeans?
Let's call this sort of thing "The Shkreli Maneuver".
This is nothing new. Russia has had a habit of starting politically-motivated dissent and riots in other countries since the 1920s. They're not interested in who wins. They just want to cause chaos and to control whoever is left standing.
FYI, Black Lives Matter is not a civil rights organization, though it pretends to be one. If it was, it would not be built on a foundation of lies.
Also missing a removable battery, SD slot, and IR-blaster. What the hell is the deal with removing useful hardware features from high end phones but leaving some of them in lower end phones?
Never settle? This phone? It looks like if you're picking this phone, you're settling for a non-removable battery and no SD card slot. I'm getting rather sick of companies taking away features and touting the results as better.
This concept should be extended to enforce the right of people to install whatever they want on hardware they own. And no sneaking around that with semantics. So... want to sell something with a locked bootloader? Fine. Disclose to buyers how to unlock it. Want to sell something with Secure Boot? Fine. Disclose to buyers how they can install their own keys and disable Secure Boot.
Did this include actual communication? How closer is humanity to having a working ansible?
I'm talking about the so-far science fiction device for instantaneous communication, not the open-source automation engine.
Now maybe they can get to the business of stopping the abuses of the drivers? (playing games with payments, hiding exactly how much they take out of the fare, telling passengers one price and telling the drivers something else, driving fares down for no good reason, etc, etc)
Does anyone know how to easily search through the mess to find instances of my name being abused?